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What is true about the Aztec Sun Stone (4.4.5) ?

A) it was originally painted in bright colors
B) it is carved with symbols representing the ways Earth was previously destroyed
C) it functioned like a calendar
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

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Thomas Eakins painted a surgery he witnessed in person.Who is shown in the painting,but was unlikely to be at the actual surgery?

A) an anesthetist
B) the patient's mother
C) the famous surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross
D) medical students
E) all of these people were at the actual surgery

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy?

Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama?

Research the Body Worlds exhibition.Select three figures that were in the exhibition,and discuss whether or not you consider these figures to be art.What has the "artist" done to the bodies to change them from their natural state? Do you think there are ethical issues with using a deceased human body as an artistic medium?

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes: -". . . nothing more than the soft,extravagant,solitary,paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time."

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1) ?

Do you think that artworks should undergo restoration? If during the restoration the artwork changes,what does this mean for the original artist's vision? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of restoring artworks.

What is significant about August 13,3114 BCE?

Willard Wigan created a lifesize replica of the Statue of Liberty for the people of France.

Study Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.How did the artist create drama in the scene? How do the reactions of the figures to the experiment add meaning to the artwork? What aspects of this painting can be seen as representative of the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Willard Wigan carves grains of rice and sand and paints them with an eyelash.

Marcia Smilack's synesthetic photograph of ripples on water made her think of the sound of ________.

Astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.

Because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish,the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo's time.

Compare the Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (4.4.9)with another work of architecture that is "green" or environmentally friendly.Consider not only how they both were built,but also how the structure represents the company or organization housed within.

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique,which means a dramatic use of light and dark:

Vitrivius was:

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists,whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

Salvador Dalí's painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks,ants,and a distorted face,all of which are symbols of his mother,who died the month before this was painted.